"Twilight" Success Ensures that "New Moon" Will Rise

The vampire movie Twilight has done a booming business at the box office, and the studio behind the film has announced that it will be bringing the second novel in the series to the big screen. New Moon, the next book in Stephenie Meyer's series, presents some box-office challenges to the filmmakers, the Entertainment Weekly article below notes.

These include a need for more special effects and the facts that the Twilight character played by hunky actor Robert Pattinson "is largely absent from Meyer's second novel." A film without Pattinson just won't have the same bite, so to speak, especially among the young female fans, it's feared.